Sundown all around. Walking through the summer's end. Waves crash baby, don't look back. I won't walk away again. Oh, baby, anywhere you go, We are bound together. I begin, baby, where you end.
So the costs of moving to a investigational location should not be capitalized. That make sense as the move have not better the skilfulness of any asset to generate revenue. I would expense rotten the moving expenses.
Generally research and development costs under GAAP are expensed as incurred. However, if it can be shown that these costs have future alternate uses, then a company may capitalize the cost. In this case, the company would capitalize the cost as an asset and then depreciate the asset over the expected life. It is important to note that personnel, indirect and contract costs can never be capitalized, regardless of whether a future alternative use exists or not.